Yuan Yi gets married
Everyone in charge quickly presented the new account, and after eating once, they were very quiet for a long time without any more tricks. Yuan Yi probably got Zhang's guidance and performed perfectly in the following days, with a strong desire to compete with Yuan Yi. However, Yuan Yi didn't have so much leisure to think about this kind of rivalry, but instead put his mind on another matter.
In fact, Yuan Yi readily agreed to let Li manage the procurement because she wanted to prepare her dowry. A family with a deep foundation starts preparing their daughter's dowry from birth and makes some additional purchases before marriage, so they can accumulate more valuable dowries and avoid last-minute rush.
However, Yuanyi was just a concubine's daughter who had lost her mother. Even if Zhu Changren favored her, she couldn't have the same careful thoughts as a woman would, and even if she got a good dowry from the West, it wouldn't be fully prepared, which led to her current embarrassing situation. There were some good things, but not many, and many things still needed to be added temporarily.
At this time, the benefits of being in charge of procurement are revealed. Although she can't ask the housekeeper to add a share for her now, at least she can choose her own dowry.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, when Yuan Yi's dowry was almost ready, the Zhu family finally welcomed the day of Yuan Yi's wedding. The dowry had been sent to the East Palace of the Crown Prince the day before, and although it did not have 120 carts, which was considered unlucky for a crown princess, all sorts of precious boxes, baskets, and utensils were provided, stretching out in a ten-mile-long red procession. Although she was not marrying as the official wife, she was entering the imperial family, representing the face of the Zhu family, and no matter what, they could not let people look down on her.
When everything was ready, the wedding procession had traversed the busiest streets of Kyoto and stopped in front of the Zhu's mansion. What was most unexpected was that, for the sake of welcoming his concubine, the Crown Prince himself came with the sedan chair. His emphasis on and fondness for the concubine could be seen from this.
The people of Kyoto are all sighing in amazement, this crown prince's side consort, apart from not wearing a big red wedding dress, the treatment she receives is almost no different from that of the main consort.
Yuan Yi was also thinking this way, when she saw the obviously pampered hand under the cover, her heart skipped a beat. Even if she wasn't the official wife, being able to gain the prince's favor would be enough for her to stand firm in the harem, let alone that her husband was the future king and her future wouldn't stop at this point. That most noble position, she might not necessarily be unable to reach it.
It was just a brief moment, but she felt her heart surge and her ambition spread, and the upcoming wedding night didn't seem so unacceptable anymore.
But all her fantasies vanished in an instant as the veil was lifted.
"Who are you!"
This was the only rebuke she heard before she came to, gloomy, angry and unbelievable after being deceived. The long night that followed was something she would never want to recall for the rest of her life, a nightmare of unbearable suffering.
She used the pain that cut to the bone to prove the rumors outside, the crown prince was dissolute and cruel, with a temper as changeable as the weather. She even thought that if she wasn't the daughter of the Zhu family, it's possible she wouldn't have been able to see the sun on the second day. In that piercing pain, she clearly saw the ferocity in his eyes, hating her so much he wished to cut her into a thousand pieces.
A luxurious and grand inner chamber; after one night, the red candles have burned out, leaving only tears.
